Angelo Bruschini

The British band Massive Attack have led the tributes to their “brilliant and eccentric” guitarist Angelo Bruschini, who has died aged 62.

Bruschini, who helped develop the Bristol trip-hop collective’s distinctive sound as well as playing guitar in the city’s art rock band The Blue Aeroplanes, revealed in the summer that he had cancer.

He wrote: “Twice now I have been told ‘good luck’ by specialists at the hospital over lung cancer, I think I’m fucked! Had a great life, seen the world many many times, met lots of wonderful people, but the door is closing, think I will write a book.”